Kim is right. Googlefight is a fun waste of time!

[04:28 PM] Pamela: &word1=pamela&word2=aaron
[04:29 PM] Aaron: rock
[04:29 PM] Pamela: but i beat dale, barely
[04:29 PM] Pamela: you only won ’cause you have that biblical edge
[04:30 PM] Pamela: heh, stephen king beat out shakespeare by 2.4 million
[04:30 PM] Aaron: holy crap i beat the monkey
[04:31 PM] Aaron: er that sounds bad
[04:31 PM] Pamela: HAHAHAHA
[04:31 PM] Aaron: &word1=monkey&word2=aaron
[04:31 PM] Pamela: heh, snoopy beat out snoop dogg by only 20k
[04:32 PM] Pamela: hah, I beat the monkey too
[04:32 PM] Pamela: *snicker*
[04:32 PM] Pamela: nooo! ninja beat monkey
[04:33 PM] Pamela: wow, ninja whooped pirate
[04:33 PM] Aaron: muahah
[04:33 PM] Aaron: damn you
[04:33 PM] Aaron: i just did pirate ninja
[04:33 PM] Pamela: but monkey beats pirate
[04:33 PM] Aaron: pie beats cake
[04:33 PM] Pamela: heh, this is like rock, paper, scissors
[04:34 PM] Pamela: rock < paper > scissors &lt rock
[04:35 PM] Pamela: frog stomps toad
[04:35 PM] Aaron: holy crap
[04:35 PM] Aaron: &word1=male&word2=female
[04:35 PM] Aaron: battle of the sexes is a tie
[04:36 PM] Pamela: *laugh* holy beat crap by 35 million
[04:36 PM] Aaron: fear
[04:36 PM] Pamela: heh, we beat you by 500k
[04:36 PM] Pamela: (male vs female)
[04:37 PM] Pamela: hrm &word1=penis&word2=vagina
[04:37 PM] Pamela: *snicker* either way, it’s a winner &word1=boobies&word2=tits
[04:39 PM] Pamela: :X &word1=anal+sex&word2=missionary+position
[04:40 PM] Aaron: laugh

I’ve gotten some questions about Olivia’s outfit in her Three Months Old photo. It’s an actual baby bodysuit that I purchased at Hot Topic last year (yes, before she was born). They have onesies for a number of different bands, including Green Day and AC/DC.

Oh, we SO have to get this No Doubt “Just a Girl” onesie!

Two days ago I finished my first crochet project. I made Olivia a little hat. It’s not perfect, but I think it came out well.

I dream of having a totally organized house. A place for everything and everything in its place. I want Martha Stewart to envy my craft room. Unfortunately, I’m lazy and a total packrat. I have a hard time throwing anything away. I keep the tissue that was wrapped around presents. My garage used to hold a ton of Amazon.com shipping boxes though I rarely sent out packages. I keep random scraps of paper and cardboard “just in case” I’ll find a use for them. I was just forced to sort through my clothes and set aside a bunch to donate because this house has much less closet space, and I didn’t wear most of my clothes anyway. I finally forced myself to part with some clothes that I haven’t worn since highschool. Yeah, I’ve been holding onto clothes that I haven’t worn in almost 15 years.

But, with this move, we are being forced to sort through belongings. A lot of our stuff was packed up into boxes that weren’t labeled, so we’re going to have to unpack each box, organize the stuff we need immediately or in the near future, set aside stuff to get rid of, then repack the nicknacks, decorations, and trinkets we don’t need to have out but want to keep. So far, I’ve only managed to get through our boxes of clothes, and I refilled two boxes with clothes to donate (including those highschool-era clothes).

In addition to thinning out our belongings, I’m trying to organize our stuff so it’s easier to keep neat and to find things. This venture has been aided by a local dollar store. I wandered in one day to see what they had (everything from Pringles to make up to scrapbooking supplies), and I found a couple of aisles stocked with plastic baskets and bins. Most weren’t that useful for my purposes because they had open tops, but I found a bunch of Sterilite Hinged-Lid bins. We currently use a huge one to hold dry cat food, so I was familiar with the odd split lid style and liked it. Plus, they’re clear so it’s easy to see what’s inside. The dollar store didn’t have the big bins, but they did have them in the 3 quart size. I picked up four of them and put them to use in the office. One holds batteries, another little plastic hooks and cable ties, a third held some extension cords.

Last night I sat down and pulled out the big bin that currently holds my craft supplies. I realized the little Sterilite containers would be a good size to hold the glue sticks, tape, stamps, etc., so I confiscated two from the office. They were perfect, but then I was left with only two in the office. So I went back to the store today and bout ten more of the little bins. I’m sure I’ll find plenty to put into each of them.

This morning I dreamt that Olivia was a toddler and I was pregnant again. My family was in town visiting because I was due any minute. And we knew it was going to be a boy.

I hope it comes true in a few years!

My baby is an escape artist.

When we put Olivia to bed, she looks like this:

The past few days when I wake up in the mornings, I find her like this:

Note that in the second photograph, she is sideways at the end of her crib.

[Crossposted from Olivia’s Blog.]